Category: education

  • Make Good Art | Neil Gaiman | Commencement Speech

    This commencement speech is mandatory listening for anyone who hopes to be creatively successful. This is, quite possibly, the best commencement speech you will ever hear.

  • Invisible Children

    There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come; whose time is now. Right now, there are more people on Facebook than there were on the planet 200 years ago. Humanity’s greatest desire is to belong and to connect. And now, we see each other. We hear each other. We share what…

  • 3 Extra Health Benefits of Earning a College Education

    3 Extra Health Benefits of Earning a College Education Many are aware that earning a college degree can help you acquire a career and earn more income. But pursuing a higher education can be so much more beneficial than just giving you a heftier number in your bank account.

  • The One-Year, Self-Directed, Alternative Graduate School Experience

    All credit to Chris Guillebeau, creator of the online manifesto “A Brief Guide to World Domination”. http://chrisguillebeau.com/3×5/ The following is taken directly from Chris Guillebeau’s book: The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live The Life You Want, and Change The World The One-Year, Self-Directed, Alternative Graduate School Experience Subscribe to the Economist and…

  • Active Fascial Contractility

    Fascial tissue may the ability to contract and adjust stiffness, potentially to the benefit of athletes under prolonged periods of mechanical stress. Endurance training may include an element of fascial tissue training which would work in conjunction with muscular endurance to further develop our bio-mechanical endurance. What is fascia? “Dense irregular connective tissue sheets in…

  • Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the Art of Roughness

    Benoit Mandelbrot begins with a photo of Romanesco Broccoli. Ends with stock market and the Mandelbrot Set. Have I died and reparticulated in the epicentergy of a mathgasm?